Nonnormal approximation by stein's method of exchangeable pairs with application to the curie-weiss model

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 464-483

  Chatterjee, Sourav ^a   Shao, Qi Man ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Berry Esseen bound; Curie Weiss model; Exchangeable pair; Stein's method

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953281495     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: 10505164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/10-AAP712     Document Type: Article

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